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		<title>Helping Hearts Annual Gala &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 13th, Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend, I was happy to donate my photography services to a fabulous event called The Helping Hearts Annual Gala.  The Helping Hearts Foundation is a non-profit corporation that holds a Gala each year to raise money to fund cardiac research at The Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).  If you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">On February 13th, Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend, I was happy to donate my photography services to a fabulous event called The Helping Hearts Annual Gala.  The Helping Hearts Foundation is a non-profit corporation that holds a Gala each year to raise money to fund cardiac research at The Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).  If you are not familiar, check out their website at <a title="Helping Hearts Gala" href="http://www.helpingheartsgala.org" target="_blank">http://www.helpingheartsgala.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This year, the event was held at the <a title="Crystal Tea Room" href="http://www.finleycatering.com/Crystal-Tea-Room/CTR-homepage/Crystal-Tea-Room.html" target="_blank">Crystal Tea Room</a> in Center City.  It was catered with delicious food, dancing, and entertainment.  Particularly, the music, casino table, silent auction, raffles and popular guests kept everyone entertained!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DJ Nevada</strong> (hip hop/ house/ dance) donated time to the event and truly kept everyone on their feet throughout the entire night.  When people weren&#8217;t dancing they were checking out the Casino table, run by <a title="Pass Line Casino Parties" href="http://www.passlinecasinoparties.com/" target="_blank">Pass Line Casino Parties</a>.  These guys were a lot of fun and always had a full table.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The silent auction and raffles had some amazing prizes including a signed Eric Clapton guitar, a Pearl Jam autographed record, some great Phillies paraphernalia, local restaurant and spa certificates, and&#8230;.. well, the list goes on and on.  There really were just too many to name!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lastly, if you attended the event, you would have seen both <strong>Miss Philadelphia </strong>and<strong> </strong><strong>Miss Pennsylvania </strong>wandering around talking and taking photographs with everyone.  How exciting!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All in all, it was a wonderful event with an even more wonderful purpose.  If you are looking for a charity to donate to, this is a great one.  They are hoping to grow the event next year.  Again, for more information please check out their <a title="Helping Hearts Gala" href="http://www.helpingheartsgala.org/" target="_blank">website</a><strong></strong>.  Here are a few pictures from the event::</p>
<div id="attachment_312" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 535px"><a href="http://melissahassey.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/helping-hearts-gala1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-312" title="helping-hearts-gala1" src="http://melissahassey.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/helping-hearts-gala1.jpg" alt="Helping Hearts Annual Gala" width="525" height="1050" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Helping Hearts Annual Gala</p></div>
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